Rock Band, Guitar Hero drive digital song sales (Yahoo News) 2.5 million downloads for Rock Band; 5 million for Guitar Hero III. Crazy number play: only counting the 360 and PS3 editions - because those are the only versions that allow song downloads - you get 1 million copies of Rock Band sold and 2.8 million of Guitar Hero III. In rough terms, that's about the same percentage of songs sold across the two games. You can just hear the music companies salivating over this.
Comic Book Urban Legends Revealed #138 (Comic Book Resources) Complete must-read... a look at Dwayne McDuffie's amazing 1989 tongue-in-cheek pitch to Marvel Comics: Teenage Negro Ninja Thrashers!
Study: False statements preceded war (Yahoo News) Almost 1000 completely wrong statements from Pres. Bush and others about WMDs in Iraq or about Hussein/al Qaeda ties, counting only from 2001 to 2003. Guaranteed nobody in the media talks about this story.
Your animation feature template (Paul Dini) Great cynical assessment of modern feature animation by Paul Dini (Batman: The Animated Series, Lost), taking Disney, Warners and DreamWorks to task. Nice discussion in comments too,
New UK Bully title causes controversy (Games Industry.biz) Pretty amazing that the same nonsense that plagued the original release of Bully is coming right back for the Wii/360 re-release. Hey everybody:
BULLY is NOT about bullying children! It is about PROTECTING kids from bullies!
Jesus flying fuck on a car door.
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